And that was why I got into doing what I'm doing. So that was really what put me on the course for working with language and helping people with language because I thought, we've got to help them so they can express themselves better, so they can get the respect they deserve, so they can avoid embarrassment. And I'm - all I'm thinking is, if I could just do this in English, they would all know how smart I am. HANSEN: And I remember almost making myself sick about having to speak in German and then standing in front of the class, battling through, can't find the words, and I'm not pronouncing things correctly. But for Heather Hansen, teaching English was a calling, one that crystallized for her when she was a college student studying German in Austria. WARNER: There are all kinds of reasons people take a job teaching English - maybe to travel somewhere or stay a while in a new place. One option is to record the excerpt below from the episode " How to Speak Bad English" from the Rough Translation podcast ( full transcript) Hold the headphones in between you so that the microphone can pick up both of your voices.
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